Do you actually like his backstory?

James was born in a small town in North Carolina. Growing up in a family of successful military men and women it was no surprise that he was influenced to join the Army. After failing three classes in college and becoming bankrupt James told himself that if he was going to be good at anything it would be being a soldier. James signed up at the age of 19 and loved every second of it. He was his Drill Sergeants favorite in his Unit. And excelled in all things physical during basic training. Shortly after graduating Infantry school James met his wife, Michelle. After only two years of dating they got married. Michelle had a baby boy shortly after. James named his son Dante after his father. Ten years later James was deployed to Afghanistan. There he met Michael MacGregor, A Scottish man who moved to America and joined the Army. They became incredibly close friends and spent two years in the same unit, Taking part in several operations together. While engaging a insurgent force in a small village in Iraq the seven hour war broke out. The combine attacked everyone in sight, both US military and Taliban. James and Michael took shelter in a smaller building and managed to stay hidden from the combine. While trying to find another Unit they discovered that civilians were being somewhat spared and all Military were being exterminated. So they abandoned their uniforms and gear and were shortly picked up after that by Combine forces. James found himself placed in city 45. Angry that the world had been conquered so quickly and easily he attacked a Civil protection officer out of blind rage. While being detained by the officer a flash went off and James found himself being dragged into the slums by a mysterious man in a CP suit. He introduced himself as Zero. Over time James began to learn that Zero was leading the resistance movement in city 45. After proving himself to Zero James was let into the movement. James met and became friends with several Resistance members in city 45 including, Sword, Phantom, Jury and many more. After a few months a large exogen outbreak forced everyone out of the city and the resistance members took a underground rail road into city 18. There James regrouped with Zero and began his work as a unimportant Resistance member once again. James was reunited with Kaylee (phantom). After talking with Kaylee James began to feel something. He developed feelings for her and planned to give her a ring as a way to tell her. Zero discovered Jame's plan and decided to intervene. Zero got James and another member who was helping James detained and was planning on letting them get amputated. After visiting James in his cell he felt pity for him and decided to let him go. James then decided that he must take over the reigns as resistance leader for city 18 as Zero obviously had his own agenda. James was quickly accepted as the leader by all the other members and dubbed himself Ace. He then gave the ring to Kaylee and the two fell in love. James then met Chris Tropicoas and over the course of two weeks decided he was fit for the resistance. He became very useful as he successfully inserted himself within the CCAs ranks. Supplying the resistance with food and weapons. Ace began to bring the movement forward quite drastically. As Ace made the resistance well known he made himself well known by the combine as well. It didnt take long for the combine to discover Aces real name and identity. Ace was granted the status of Anti-citizen one for city 18. However as with any war there are losses. As the resistance took more and more losses, depression and stress soon settled on Aces shoulders. He felt that he was not fit after all to lead but Phantom and Chris pushed him forward. Over time the resistance lead by Ace hit the Combine hard with ambushes on CCA convoys, Assassinations of High valued Targets, Kidnappings, and random assaults on the Nexus. After some time of fighting in city 18 things were getting worse for the resistance. The CCA was slowly pushing into the slums, exterminating one resistance member every day. Ace knew that now was the time to leave city 18 for the outlands. Ace found a safe place for a outpost and moved all the members he could out of city 18. However the sanctuary was short lived. Ace soon heard that his son Dante was in fact alive. He left the outlands outpost without letting anyone know in search of his son. Ace left for city 23, a city torn by a war started by a resistance uprising. When Ace arrived he found that the CCA had desperately leveled the city with a orbital strike. Ace found a small group of city 23 resistance survivors and learned that Dante had indeed survived and left to city 19 to keep fighting. On the way to city 19, Ace was ambushed and caught by Elite overwatch units. Four months Ace spent in a small cell being tortured and beaten for information. After four months in a combine cell Ace was broken out by a small group of liberated vortigaunts. The things done to Ace during those months changed him. Fueled him with a greater motivation to keep fighting the combine. Ace gave up on searching for his son. Deciding that he needed to return to city 18. He arrived in city 18 on foot, beaten and bleeding. His wounds healed and he settled back in city 18, explaining to everyone where he had been. He learned that Kaylee had entered a state of panic and depression and that she had fallen into the arms of Zero thinking Ace was dead. However Kaylee and Aces love was not dead. After having a fight, Ace and Kaylee made up and fell in love once more. Now Ace is back in city 18. To lead the fight. For the resistance, for humanity, for hope. And he isnt going anywhere, not as long as he has anything to say about it.

Lol you made Zero sound like a total douce bag, He wasnt planning on having him amputated, just landed in detainment to prove a point on who controls the board, Zero opened the emotion on anger, which caused him to do such actions. Zero has emotional problems and attempts to not use emotion in his day to day activities to gain a grip of his own life and control.

I don't think it made him look like a doosh...douce...doucsh...however you spell it. It just made him look more like...scarier....so anyone who reads this backstory is gonna be like "Oh sheet...theres zero...GTFO" :p